The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mittimus \Mit"ti*mus\, n. [L., we send, fr. mittere to send.] (Law)
A precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of commitment to prison.
--Burrill.A writ for removing records from one court to another.
--Brande & C.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context legal archaic outside the US English) A warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody. 2 A writ for moving records from one court to another.
Usage examples of "mittimus".
So that he was about to make her mittimus to Bridewell when I departed.
Whereat he told me, that if they would not be so bound, my mittimus must be made, and I sent to the jail, there to lie to the quarter sessions.
Now by this time my mittimus was made, and I committed to the constable, to be sent to the jail in Bedford, etc.
Whilst one of the officers withdrew to make out a mittimus, the Professor asked one of the others if they had found Dr.
In response to a general question from Kim, she showed her how to find all sorts of papers and documents associated with the Salem witch trials including accusations, complaints, arrest warrants, depositions, hearing testimony, court records of the preliminary hearings, mittimi, and execution warrants.